Cryptic crossword clue
German philosopher’s more cheerful 5

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word GAYER

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What does GAYER mean?

GAYER adjective
  1. (possibly obsolete) Happy, joyful, and lively.
  2. Quick, fast.
  3. (possibly obsolete) Festive, bright, or colourful.
  4. Sexually promiscuous (of any gender), (sometimes particularly) engaged in prostitution.
  5. Homosexual:
  6. A pejorative:
  7. (of a dog's tail) Upright or curved over the back.
  8. (possibly obsolete) Considerable, great, large in number, size, or degree.
GAYER noun
  1. Somebody who is gay (in the sense of either homosexual or uncool).

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